Rice at Texas
Saturday, October 25, 1941 Share
No. 2 Texas beat Rice 40–0. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 18–10.
FinalHigh 84°F, low 66°FAttendance 42,000
In the newspapers

Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 26, 1941, page 1
Read the text
Texas II Routs Rice, 40 TO 0 AUSTIN, Tex, Oct 25.-Brilliant football gave Texas a 40 to 0 victory over Rice Institute today, pointing Texas indisputably as one of the nations leading teams. Rice threatened once. penetrating against the second Texas team to the 19-yard line. Coach Bible sent In his first string lineSmen and Rice gave up the ball on the 19-yard line. All three Texas teams played and only the third team, playing in the third quarter, failed to score. The first team was taken out after it established a 1910 lead. The second team was taken out after it ran it up TO n points in the first half, went back in the fourth quarter and scored two more touChdowns.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Texas 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Rice–Texas gameTexas leads 75–21–1 in 97 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.
| 2023 | Texas 37, Rice 10 | |
| 2021 | Texas 58, Rice 0 | |
| 2019 | Texas 48, Rice 13 | |
| 2015 | Texas 42, Rice 28 | |
| 2011 | Texas 34, Rice 9 | |
| 2010 | Texas 34, Rice 17 |
Around this game
Rice
- Next gamevs. Centenary (LA)Nov. 1, 1941
- SeasonRice in 1941
- ProgramRice history and records
Texas
- Next gameat SMUNov. 1, 1941
- SeasonTexas in 1941
- ProgramTexas history and records

